News of the Week

Item: Man Gets All His Ducks in Row, Briefly. Joe Schmoxli of West Huffakers, NV, owner/operator of the Family Innocence Petting Zoo, assisted by his trained ferret, Hinky, recently arranged all 47 of his ducks in a row in front of a mesmerized crowd of Cub Scouts, confused emus, wet-cold-blooded-codfish and paying customers. Combining provocative rhetoric, disco hustle dancing and magic fancy swipes with a broom culled from his years as an Olympic curler, Mr. Shmoxli finally squeezed all the ducks into stringent alignment for an official 1.3 seconds, a standard set by the Global Council of Imposing Linearity. Moments later, overwrought by maintaining such a taxing vector, several fowl spontaneously converted to Sufism, broke ranks and waddled recklessly towards Greater Duckness like it was 1999.

231st Street

FDR Built This Park

I can still hear the mighty hammers

of truth and justice and public opinion

clanging against the hard rock of the land

knocking out a great depression

picnic tables made from ropes

strong arms and B-52's

soaring from the mountain side

black and white, bricks and beer

a red white and blueprint and oh so green

bald eagles and wild turkeys

wild as broncos smoking FDR's tobacco

and now I sit here 50 years later

wishing Delano his large self and his rich sister

were right here

drinking our Budweiser, eating our potato salad

and seducing our neighbors

toasting the New Deal and Social Security

stacking the Supreme Court

gently reminding him not to say "japs"

and in general enjoying

the fine weather we're having

maybe he brought it with him

the boy poets remember a distant time

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Interesting Thoughts

"Everything is somewhere always."  - Max Zictim, a relative of the Absolute

"If you wonder whether or not you did something, you either did or did not do it."  - Fergus III, Duke of Whaxam


"I wanna be in a nut commercial." - Gregg Almond

Road Work #2

by Calvin Burgamy

Godot Family Reunion

This just in from the whirled headquarters 
news desk! 
Godot family reunion turns into waiting game.